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    Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

    This is strange. I enabled the Excel export icon in two grids. They both work as advertised in Working Preview, but not in live preview or localhost.

    What am I missing?
    Peter
    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

     [email protected]
    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com
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    Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

    Peter, I have enabled the Excel export on a bunch of my grids and it is has been working fine (mostly) in Live Preview and Local Host. But I have not updated Alpha since November 10th update. What build are you on? Also, does it make a difference if you include .xls as an allowed file name in Project Properties? http://screencast.com/t/sv47HSd5rtH I've had those allowed file names set for so long, I can't remember if I had to put the .xls there or not to make it work.

    I did have an issue on one grid in mid November with the file name that Alpha was creating for the Excel file being too long for allowed filenames, and it produced an error. After doing a bug report on Nov 14, Selwyn sent this message to me: "i added code to generate a shorter export filename for the next update" . I've actually not tested that yet because I haven't updated since Nov 10.
    Carol King
    Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
    http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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      #3
      Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

      Hi Carol,

      Thanks for your thoughts. I do have ".xls" in project properties, but I don't think that is relevant in any case. I tried a v10 grid which has the Excel export in v11 and that works! So there is something about the grids themselves. More testing and maybe a bug report.
      Peter
      AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

       [email protected]
      https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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        #4
        Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

        Peter, I'm about to update and am curious what build you are using and whether by updating I might break my Excel exports because of some bug.
        Carol King
        Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
        http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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          Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

          Originally posted by kingcarol View Post
          Peter, I'm about to update and am curious what build you are using and whether by updating I might break my Excel exports because of some bug.
          I'm on the Dec 6 build. I have to do a test. I'll report back here.
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

           [email protected]
          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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            #6
            Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

            It's all over the map. There is definitely some kind of bug. I'll report it.
            Peter
            AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

             [email protected]
            https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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              Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

              I just updated to the Pre Release for today (well, it says Jan 7th there, but...) and have tested a lot of my Excel export buttons and all seems fine.
              http://downloads.alphasoftware.com/A...easenotes.html

              EDIT: oh, they changed it from Jan 7 to Jan 6, so they noticed boo boo. :)
              Carol King
              Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
              http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                #8
                Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

                Nope. That didn't help. There is a deeper problem it would seem. I can get the Excel to work in certain dbs, but not others, so it's definitely something. Thanks
                Peter
                AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                 [email protected]
                https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                  #9
                  Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

                  Peter - might it be different kinds of fields between the ones that are working and the ones that aren't??

                  When you say "certain db's" do they differ by server location? By table structure? or ?? Obviously there's _something_ different between "workie" and "no workie", right?

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                    Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

                    Originally posted by Jeff Blackwell View Post
                    Peter - might it be different kinds of fields between the ones that are working and the ones that aren't??

                    When you say "certain db's" do they differ by server location? By table structure? or ?? Obviously there's _something_ different between "workie" and "no workie", right?
                    Jeff & Carol,

                    Jerry Brightbill solved the problem:

                    Peter

                    You have set a list of Allowed folders for file download. Since the excel files are downloaded and they are created in the user's session folder, if that folder is not in the allowed folders, the file is blocked. If you check the session folder, the file is being created.

                    If you set the allowed folders to just <UserSessionFolder> or left it blank, the Excel works correctly

                    If there are any folders listed, then they are the ONLY folders you can download from. If the list is blank, then you can download from ANY folder.

                    Currently, if the list is just <UserSessionFolder>, then you can download just from the session folder, which is needed for the Excel, but not from any other folder

                    Strictly speaking this isn't a bug, but the behavior is pretty limiting. I am looking at allowing a list of folders and allow <UserSessionFolder> in the list so you can specify folders and still allow the session folder.
                    Peter
                    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                     [email protected]
                    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                      Re: Excel export not working in live preview/localhost

                      If any folders are specified in the "File Download->Allowed folders" in the project properties, downloads are only allowed from those folders. The user's session folder must be allowed when using the Excel export as the Excel file is created in the users session folder and then downloaded from that folder. If the "Allowed folders" is left blank, downloads can be made from any folder.

                      Previously, you could specify <UserSessionFolder> or a list of folders, but not both.

                      A change has been made to allow <UserSessionFolder> to be included as a folder in the list in addition to other folders. This will allow you to limit downloads to specific folders and still include the session folder. Now if you want to only allow downloads from any folder named 'images' or 'pdf' and the users session folder, you can enter
                      Code:
                      *\images,*\pdf,<UserSessionFolder>
                      The change will be in the next release candidate build.

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